CVE-2018-10856: Podman Elevated Container Privileges

May 13, 2022 (updated September 16, 2024)

It has been discovered that podman before version 0.6.1 does not drop capabilities when executing a container as a non-root user. This results in unnecessary privileges being granted to the container.

References

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2037
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10856
github.com/advisories/GHSA-wp7w-vx86-vj9h
github.com/containers/podman
github.com/projectatomic/libpod/commit/bae80a0b663925ec751ad2784ca32989403cdc24
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10856

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